How to use local dovecot (imap) with Alpine (18.10+ changes)
I have been using Alpine mail client with a local dovecot imap server (fed by offlineimap) for many years. Here are my compete 2011 instructions for how to set this up (https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/how-to-alpine-maildir-offlineimap/ ).
I have just updated from 18.04 to 18.10, and my arrangement no longer works. How can I fix it?
Alpine first tells me to replace localhost with localhost/novalidate-cert in my Alpine config file, and it then if I do that it asks me for a password. If I grudgingly give it one, it then shows me my /var/spool mailbox instead of my imap mailbox.
The following line is in my .pinerc:
rsh-command=/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf 2>> ~/imap.log
My .auto-dovecot.conf has nothing but
verbose_proctitle = yes
mail_location = maildir:~/imap/mygmail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/imap/mygmail/INBOX
When I run from the command line
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf
I see the following (my POSIX username is meuser)
imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer)
failed: Permission denied
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES
WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+
NOTIFY] Logged in as meuser
which tells me that dovecot is running fine. But I do not understand what this is telling me or what is wrong.
email dovecot imap
asked Dec 23 '18 at 18:17
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I have been using Alpine mail client with a local dovecot imap server (fed by offlineimap) for many years. Here are my compete 2011 instructions for how to set this up (https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/how-to-alpine-maildir-offlineimap/ ).
I have just updated from 18.04 to 18.10, and my arrangement no longer works. How can I fix it?
Alpine first tells me to replace localhost with localhost/novalidate-cert in my Alpine config file, and it then if I do that it asks me for a password. If I grudgingly give it one, it then shows me my /var/spool mailbox instead of my imap mailbox.
The following line is in my .pinerc:
rsh-command=/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf 2>> ~/imap.log
My .auto-dovecot.conf has nothing but
verbose_proctitle = yes
mail_location = maildir:~/imap/mygmail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/imap/mygmail/INBOX
When I run from the command line
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf
I see the following (my POSIX username is meuser)
imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer)
failed: Permission denied
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES
WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+
NOTIFY] Logged in as meuser
which tells me that dovecot is running fine. But I do not understand what this is telling me or what is wrong.
email dovecot imap
asked Dec 23 '18 at 18:17
CPBLCPBL
278510
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I have been using Alpine mail client with a local dovecot imap server (fed by offlineimap) for many years. Here are my compete 2011 instructions for how to set this up (https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/how-to-alpine-maildir-offlineimap/ ).
I have just updated from 18.04 to 18.10, and my arrangement no longer works. How can I fix it?
Alpine first tells me to replace localhost with localhost/novalidate-cert in my Alpine config file, and it then if I do that it asks me for a password. If I grudgingly give it one, it then shows me my /var/spool mailbox instead of my imap mailbox.
The following line is in my .pinerc:
rsh-command=/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf 2>> ~/imap.log
My .auto-dovecot.conf has nothing but
verbose_proctitle = yes
mail_location = maildir:~/imap/mygmail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/imap/mygmail/INBOX
When I run from the command line
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf
I see the following (my POSIX username is meuser)
imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer)
failed: Permission denied
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES
WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+
NOTIFY] Logged in as meuser
which tells me that dovecot is running fine. But I do not understand what this is telling me or what is wrong.
email dovecot imap
asked Dec 23 '18 at 18:17
CPBLCPBL
278510
I have been using Alpine mail client with a local dovecot imap server (fed by offlineimap) for many years. Here are my compete 2011 instructions for how to set this up (https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/how-to-alpine-maildir-offlineimap/ ).
I have just updated from 18.04 to 18.10, and my arrangement no longer works. How can I fix it?
Alpine first tells me to replace localhost with localhost/novalidate-cert in my Alpine config file, and it then if I do that it asks me for a password. If I grudgingly give it one, it then shows me my /var/spool mailbox instead of my imap mailbox.
The following line is in my .pinerc:
rsh-command=/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf 2>> ~/imap.log
My .auto-dovecot.conf has nothing but
verbose_proctitle = yes
mail_location = maildir:~/imap/mygmail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/imap/mygmail/INBOX
When I run from the command line
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.auto-dovecot.conf
I see the following (my POSIX username is meuser)
imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer)
failed: Permission denied
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES
WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+
NOTIFY] Logged in as meuser
which tells me that dovecot is running fine. But I do not understand what this is telling me or what is wrong.
email dovecot imap
email dovecot imap
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Alpine hasn't changed from 18.04 to 18.10, but dovecot did.
The problem appears to be an issue that the developers of dovecot are working on.
I have not issued a bug report, but after discussions with lead dev Iko Tuomi, it turns out that the solution is to put the following into /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
service stats {
unix_listener stats-writer {
mode = 0666
}
}
Then all of my old prescriptions (including the custom .conf file that is used for the imapd call) work fine as they were. (and I'll update that blog shortly)
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Alpine hasn't changed from 18.04 to 18.10, but dovecot did.
The problem appears to be an issue that the developers of dovecot are working on.
I have not issued a bug report, but after discussions with lead dev Iko Tuomi, it turns out that the solution is to put the following into /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
service stats {
unix_listener stats-writer {
mode = 0666
}
}
Then all of my old prescriptions (including the custom .conf file that is used for the imapd call) work fine as they were. (and I'll update that blog shortly)
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Alpine hasn't changed from 18.04 to 18.10, but dovecot did.
The problem appears to be an issue that the developers of dovecot are working on.
I have not issued a bug report, but after discussions with lead dev Iko Tuomi, it turns out that the solution is to put the following into /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
service stats {
unix_listener stats-writer {
mode = 0666
}
}
Then all of my old prescriptions (including the custom .conf file that is used for the imapd call) work fine as they were. (and I'll update that blog shortly)
answered Dec 31 '18 at 22:23
CPBLCPBL
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Alpine hasn't changed from 18.04 to 18.10, but dovecot did.
The problem appears to be an issue that the developers of dovecot are working on.
I have not issued a bug report, but after discussions with lead dev Iko Tuomi, it turns out that the solution is to put the following into /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
service stats {
unix_listener stats-writer {
mode = 0666
}
}
Then all of my old prescriptions (including the custom .conf file that is used for the imapd call) work fine as they were. (and I'll update that blog shortly)
answered Dec 31 '18 at 22:23
CPBLCPBL
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Alpine hasn't changed from 18.04 to 18.10, but dovecot did.
The problem appears to be an issue that the developers of dovecot are working on.
I have not issued a bug report, but after discussions with lead dev Iko Tuomi, it turns out that the solution is to put the following into /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
service stats {
unix_listener stats-writer {
mode = 0666
}
}
Then all of my old prescriptions (including the custom .conf file that is used for the imapd call) work fine as they were. (and I'll update that blog shortly)
answered Dec 31 '18 at 22:23
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